North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)

WoRMS taxon details

Hoplonemertea

AphiaID

122309 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122309)

Classification

Authority

Hubrecht, 1879

Status

accepted

Rank

Class

Parent

Nemertea

Synonymised names

Enopla · unaccepted (dismissed, no longer used)

Herponemertoidea · unaccepted (polyphyletic group)

Hoplonemertini · alternative representation

Metanemertini · unaccepted (synonym)

Urichorhynchocoela · unaccepted (synonym)

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Order Monostilifera
Order Polystilifera
Order Bdellomorpha accepted as Malacobdellidae Blanchard, 1847
Suborder Polystiliferoidea accepted as Polystilifera (synonym)
Order Urichorhynchocoela accepted as Hoplonemertea (synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Hoplonemertea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122309 on 2025-03-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gibson, Raymond

2010-06-28 17:53:07Z

changed

Norenburg, Jon

2011-04-11 18:36:50Z

changed

Norenburg, Jon

2011-04-12 14:08:46Z

changed

Norenburg, Jon

2019-01-07 12:51:04Z

changed

Strand, Malin

2020-08-07 14:08:48Z

changed

Norenburg, Jon

Licensing

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Nomenclature

basis of record Gibson, R. (2001). Nemertini (Nemertae), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 152-156 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Strand, M.; Norenburg, J.; Alfaya, J. E.; Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, F.; Andersson, H. S.; Andrade, S. C. S.; Bartolomaeus, T.; Beckers, P.; Bigatti, G.; Cherneva, I.; Chernyshev, A.; Chung, B. M.; Von Döhren, J.; Giribet, G.; Gonzalez-Cueto, J.; Herrera-Bachiller, A.; Hiebert, T.; Hookabe, N.; Junoy, J.; Kajihara, H.; Krämer, D.; Kvist, S.; Magarlamov, T. Y.; Maslakova, S.; Mendes, C. B.; Okazaki, R.; Sagorny, C.; Schwartz, M.; Sun, S.-C.; Sundberg, P.; Turbeville, J. M.; Xu, C.-M. (2018). Nemertean taxonomy—implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla. Zoologica Scripta. 48(1): 118–119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12317 [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	針紐虫綱有針綱 [from synonym]	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Enopla)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Enopla) (from synonym Enopla)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplonemertea)
To Genbank (from synonym Enopla)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Hoplonemertini)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Enopla)
To ITIS

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